Pareeksha film audit:A well-intentioned film
Pareeksha movie cast: Adil Hussain, Priyanka Bose, Shubham Jha, Sanjay Suri
Pareeksha movie director: Prakash Jha
Pareeksha movie rating: Three and a half stars
In light of a genuine story, Pareeksha is about a cart puller in Bihar whose craving to see his child go to the city’s best English-medium non-public school, overcomes all else. And keeping in mind that the treatment is direct, regularly taking an oversimplified bounce skip-hop over intense issues to arrive at its message-y end, it toplines trust: on the off chance that one helpless man’s kid can break into the advantaged sanctum of costly education which will prompt a superior life, so can numerous others.
Buchchi (Hussain) has been shipping kids to Sapphire International school for quite a long while, while his own child Bulbul (Shubham) goes to a government school. That he is Dalit isn’t expressly expressed, yet his location is ‘Ambedkar Colony’, where he lives with his wife Priyanka (Bose, compelling) and super-brilliant child: the ‘pareeksha’ isn’t only the few tests his child needs to go to initially get into the English medium school and afterward have the option to compose the life changing CBSE board tests, it’s additionally a trial of how far Buchchi will go to encourage that fantasy, while Priyanka supplements the meagre family income with an exacting assembly-line job in a local factory.
Buchchi’s veering towards the petty criminal life is shown as a good man’s desperation to do whatever he can to make the impossible amount of money needed for the boy’s fees and other unending school-related expenses. It is hard to make an honest living by those who live on the margins (other rickshaw-pullers in the movies come to mind, especially Balraj Sahni in Bimal Roy’s 1953 landmark Do Bigha Zameen), and how the powerful prey upon the meek.
Typically, Buchchi arrives up in the jaws of the police and courts, and the exit plan gets the film’s friend in need, a top cop (Suri) who starts showing the children in Ambedkar Colony in his extra time. What’s more, typically, Bulbul experts his ‘pareeksha’, the film overlooking the difficulties a ‘Hindi medium’ understudy can look in school: the way that he is low position is advantageously kept out of the school’s domain, looking like a contentious parent who doesn’t need his child to share space in the cart.
To pull a cart is an extremely difficult activity. Adil Hussain is completely reasonable as Buchchi, the bottoms of his feet dusty, the stretching curve of his back as he takes an incline, with his cart loaded up with such a large number of kids. You wish however that the exchange was not so on the button: ‘aukaat se zyaada sapne dekh liya’, says Buchchi, and keeping in mind that that is a legitimate estimation, a portion of his scenes are loaded down with old-style drama, particularly in which Buchchi seems twisted and broken before the caring police officer.
Pareeksha is streaming on ZEE5
